The question is who will decide which is the mainstream. Is it Hindutva? Does religion draw the contours of mainstream? What about Vajpayee's admission that "we (the Hindus) had pulled down the structure in Ayodhya but it was a reaction to the Muslim votebank". In other words, the community was chastised because it had been voting Congress. Even now Muslims do not support the BJP. Does it mean that some other mosques will be destroyed because they are a 'votebank' of some other party? It seems as if the mainstream and the BJP are co-terminus. Such thinking is pernicious because it is parochial and sectarian. If as PM, Vajpayee propagates the views he has expressed, how can the Muslims, the 120 million people of India, expect fairplay? Even if the BJP seeks to make amends, such an attitude would only make the minority more intractable. Since Muslims are generally at the lowest rung economically, they are bound to feel oppressed. If some of them turn to fundamentalism or separatism, they may do so out of desperation, a sense of alienation, not because of their reluctance to join the mainstream. They feel unwanted.